SPOTLIGHT BOOK

CLEAN, A Conspiracy Thriller by Tom Lytes

When policewoman Peggy receives social media messages instructing her to commit murder, she's plunged into a nightmare. If she doesn't obey, she herself will die. But if she complies, she'll kill her estranged brother. As the bodies pile up, Peggy must evaluate her relationships and work with her kind-of-honest, kind-of-boyfriend in the FBI. But can they contain CLEAN? "Lytes’ series launch is part-Westworld in its depiction of deadly technology and part–Black Mirror...The story has a propulsive energy." —Kirkus Reviews Read more

Unforgiving and ruthlessly violent, the Russian mafia has rapidly taken over the criminal underworld in the U.S. When a powerful family executes two high-profile American politicians, the message is obvious: opposition will be met with deadly...

Unforgiving and ruthlessly violent, the Russian mafia has rapidly taken over the criminal underworld in the U.S. When a powerful family executes two high-profile American politicians, the message is obvious: opposition will be met with deadly...

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Please See Us

by Caitlin Mullen

Pub Date
03 Mar 2020

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In this sophisticated, suspenseful debut reminiscent of Laura Lippman and Chloe Benjamin, two young women become unlikely friends during one fateful summer in Atlantic City as mysterious disappearances hit dangerously close to home.

Summer has come to Atlantic City but the boardwalk is empty of tourists, the casino lights have dimmed, and two Jane Does are...

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Please See Us

Caitlin Mullen

Please See Us

by Caitlin Mullen

Pub Date
03 Mar 2020

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In this sophisticated, suspenseful debut reminiscent of Laura Lippman and Chloe Benjamin, two young women become unlikely friends during one fateful summer in Atlantic City as mysterious disappearances hit dangerously close to home.

Summer has come to Atlantic City but the boardwalk is empty of tourists, the casino lights have dimmed, and two Jane Does are...

And now she’s back. Two-and-a-half-year-old Holly is playing happily in a pink plastic playhouse, while her mother Rachel sips coffee and chats with a friend nearby. It should be an ordinary day for all of them. But, in the blink of an eye, it turns into every family’s worst nightmare.

And now she’s back. Two-and-a-half-year-old Holly is playing happily in a pink plastic playhouse, while her mother Rachel sips coffee and chats with a friend nearby. It should be an ordinary day for all of them. But, in the blink of an eye, it turns into every family’s worst nightmare.

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Cry of the Firebird

by T.M. Clark

Pub Date
18 Nov 2019

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In the badlands of Africa, a resourceful doctor fights to save her patients' lives. Australian thriller writer T.M. Clark returns with a vivid, action-packed adventure in the tradition of Wilbur Smith.

South African-born Doctor Lily Winters, a consultant with the World Health Organization, has been in the thick of some of the worst humanitarian disasters...

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Cry of the Firebird

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Cry of the Firebird

by T.M. Clark

Pub Date
18 Nov 2019

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In the badlands of Africa, a resourceful doctor fights to save her patients' lives. Australian thriller writer T.M. Clark returns with a vivid, action-packed adventure in the tradition of Wilbur Smith.

South African-born Doctor Lily Winters, a consultant with the World Health Organization, has been in the thick of some of the worst humanitarian disasters...

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The Allingham Minibus

by Margery Allingham

Pub Date
10 Oct 2019

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In this collection of eighteen short stories, Queen of Crime Margery Allingham dabbles in the occult, the mysterious, and the murderous. Always the perceptive observer, Allingham fills these stories with astute characterisations, brilliant humor, and her classic wit.

With a tribute by Agatha Christie, this Golden Age collection is sure to dazzle and...

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The Allingham Minibus

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The Allingham Minibus

by Margery Allingham

Pub Date
10 Oct 2019

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In this collection of eighteen short stories, Queen of Crime Margery Allingham dabbles in the occult, the mysterious, and the murderous. Always the perceptive observer, Allingham fills these stories with astute characterisations, brilliant humor, and her classic wit.

With a tribute by Agatha Christie, this Golden Age collection is sure to dazzle and...

The brand new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Hunting Party.

Guests are called to a remote island off the Irish coast to celebrate the wedding of the year – the marriage of Jules and Will. Everything has been meticulously planned, the scene is set, old friends are back together.

The brand new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Hunting Party.

Guests are called to a remote island off the Irish coast to celebrate the wedding of the year – the marriage of Jules and Will. Everything has been meticulously planned, the scene is set, old friends are back together.

In the volatile tinderbox of the Horn of Africa, Morgan Adler has made the paleoanthropological find of a lifetime. The discovery brings her to the attention of a warlord eager to claim the fossils, forcing her to make a desperate dash to the nearby US military base to beg for...

In the volatile tinderbox of the Horn of Africa, Morgan Adler has made the paleoanthropological find of a lifetime. The discovery brings her to the attention of a warlord eager to claim the fossils, forcing her to make a desperate dash to the nearby US military base to beg for...

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Penny for Your Secrets

by Anna Lee Huber

Pub Date
29 Oct 2019

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England, 1919. In Anna Lee Huber’s latest mystery, former Secret Service agent Verity Kent is finding that life after wartime offers its own share of danger . . . The Great War may be over, but for many, there are still obstacles on the home front. Reconciling with her estranged husband makes Verity sympathetic to her friend Ada’s marital difficulties...

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Penny for Your Secrets

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Penny for Your Secrets

by Anna Lee Huber

Pub Date
29 Oct 2019

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England, 1919. In Anna Lee Huber’s latest mystery, former Secret Service agent Verity Kent is finding that life after wartime offers its own share of danger . . . The Great War may be over, but for many, there are still obstacles on the home front. Reconciling with her estranged husband makes Verity sympathetic to her friend Ada’s marital difficulties...

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Hounds of the Basket Stitch

by Anne Canadeo

Pub Date
29 Oct 2019

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The Black Sheep Knitters come to the aid of two sisters—one a victim and one a suspect . . . Maggie Messina knows that knitting is not only enjoyable, it also calms both the mind and soul. She’s happy to visit two sisters, Holly and Rose Piper, and teach them some simple stitches, while the rest of the Black Sheep knitters tag along. Dana Haeger has known...

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Hounds of the Basket Stitch

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Hounds of the Basket Stitch

by Anne Canadeo

Pub Date
29 Oct 2019

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The Black Sheep Knitters come to the aid of two sisters—one a victim and one a suspect . . . Maggie Messina knows that knitting is not only enjoyable, it also calms both the mind and soul. She’s happy to visit two sisters, Holly and Rose Piper, and teach them some simple stitches, while the rest of the Black Sheep knitters tag along. Dana Haeger has known...

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Let Justice Descend

by Lisa Black

Pub Date
29 Oct 2019

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In a taut, brilliantly twisted new thriller from bestselling author Lisa Black, forensics expert Maggie Gardiner and Cleveland detective Jack Renner investigate the bizarre murder of a senator with secrets to hide… Three days before a key election, U.S. Senator Diane Cragin is electrocuted on her own doorstep—a shocking twist in an already brutal...

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Let Justice Descend

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Let Justice Descend

by Lisa Black

Pub Date
29 Oct 2019

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In a taut, brilliantly twisted new thriller from bestselling author Lisa Black, forensics expert Maggie Gardiner and Cleveland detective Jack Renner investigate the bizarre murder of a senator with secrets to hide… Three days before a key election, U.S. Senator Diane Cragin is electrocuted on her own doorstep—a shocking twist in an already brutal...

No one knows club owner Gideon Maddox’s real identity until the woman he’d once loved walks into the Red Carpet Christmas fundraiser at Club Undercover. He hasn't seen recent widow Simone Burke for nearly two decades—since he testified to put her father in prison for killing his own father. The...

No one knows club owner Gideon Maddox’s real identity until the woman he’d once loved walks into the Red Carpet Christmas fundraiser at Club Undercover. He hasn't seen recent widow Simone Burke for nearly two decades—since he testified to put her father in prison for killing his own father. The...

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Fire, Fog and Water

by Mike Martin

Pub Date
07 Oct 2019

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In the 8th book in the award-winning Sgt. Windflower Mystery series, Sergeant Winston Windflower and his trusty crew at the Grand Bank detachment of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have more than a few mysteries on their hands.

Fire, Fog and Water retains the light crime genre while delving into the most perplexing social issues of our time. Windflower...

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Fire, Fog and Water

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Fire, Fog and Water

by Mike Martin

Pub Date
07 Oct 2019

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In the 8th book in the award-winning Sgt. Windflower Mystery series, Sergeant Winston Windflower and his trusty crew at the Grand Bank detachment of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have more than a few mysteries on their hands.

Fire, Fog and Water retains the light crime genre while delving into the most perplexing social issues of our time. Windflower...

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Comes the Dark

by P.A. Turner

Pub Date
24 Dec 2018

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Comes the Dark exposes a corrupt politician's shadowy world of human depravity.In possession of information which could blow that shadowy world apart, 18-year-old Kyle escapes a life of abuse and goes on the run.

One step ahead of his pursuers, he flees the harsh realities of Glasgow's homeless underworld, to the apparent safety of a remote Scottish island.

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Comes the Dark

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Comes the Dark

by P.A. Turner

Pub Date
24 Dec 2018

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Comes the Dark exposes a corrupt politician's shadowy world of human depravity.In possession of information which could blow that shadowy world apart, 18-year-old Kyle escapes a life of abuse and goes on the run.

One step ahead of his pursuers, he flees the harsh realities of Glasgow's homeless underworld, to the apparent safety of a remote Scottish island.

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On the Edge of Darkness

by C. L. Avery

Pub Date
20 Feb 2017

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Over the past decade as a homicide detective with the Austin police department, Ransom Kidder has always nailed the bad guy. All of them that is, except one: the Travis Heights Slasher, who killed three people and then vanished without a trace ten years ago.

Now, from out of the blue, he's back, and the bodies are piling up. There's no shortage of forensic...

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On the Edge of Darkness

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On the Edge of Darkness

by C. L. Avery

Pub Date
20 Feb 2017

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Over the past decade as a homicide detective with the Austin police department, Ransom Kidder has always nailed the bad guy. All of them that is, except one: the Travis Heights Slasher, who killed three people and then vanished without a trace ten years ago.

Now, from out of the blue, he's back, and the bodies are piling up. There's no shortage of forensic...

”Since I’d be first to cast a stone at a murderer—I am one after all—I venture on writing these truthful chronicles as a study of human suffering,” writes a serial-killer, in a story of self-discovery gone amok. JUNG’S DEMON is a book as hallucinogenic as Hunter S. Thompson and as powerful as Oscar Zeta Acosta. It...

”Since I’d be first to cast a stone at a murderer—I am one after all—I venture on writing these truthful chronicles as a study of human suffering,” writes a serial-killer, in a story of self-discovery gone amok. JUNG’S DEMON is a book as hallucinogenic as Hunter S. Thompson and as powerful as Oscar Zeta Acosta. It...

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Odell's Fall

by Norman Bacal

Pub Date
23 Apr 2019

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Where do you go once you’ve clawed your way from obscurity to the pinnacle of success? When you’ve finally found the woman of your dreams but the ethical rules guiding your life need to be broken in order to have her? When you’ve eloped to avoid the stigma of an inter-racial marriage among Alabama’s elite? If you’re OdellMoore, one of New York’s most...

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Odell's Fall

Norman Bacal

Odell's Fall

by Norman Bacal

Pub Date
23 Apr 2019

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Where do you go once you’ve clawed your way from obscurity to the pinnacle of success? When you’ve finally found the woman of your dreams but the ethical rules guiding your life need to be broken in order to have her? When you’ve eloped to avoid the stigma of an inter-racial marriage among Alabama’s elite? If you’re OdellMoore, one of New York’s most...

Pub Date
14 Jan 2020

A woman with buried secrets…An agent with an impossible mission…An inheritance that will destroy them both…

When Liv Sullivan’s dead grandmother beckons for help from beyond the grave, the reluctant psychic is forced back to her small Ohio hometown. Scrambling to make sense of her grandmother’s legacy, Liv finds herself face to face with undercover Agent...

Pub Date
14 Jan 2020

A woman with buried secrets…An agent with an impossible mission…An inheritance that will destroy them both…

When Liv Sullivan’s dead grandmother beckons for help from beyond the grave, the reluctant psychic is forced back to her small Ohio hometown. Scrambling to make sense of her grandmother’s legacy, Liv finds herself face to face with undercover Agent...

Pub Date
01 Mar 2018

Ethan is a liar. He can't help it, he doesn't even realize he's doing it, but he lies to everyone he meets, and he doesn't know how to stop.

Cut off from those around him, Ethan finds himself at the door of Dr. Wright, agreeing to a radical treatment. Ethan will leave his home of Boston behind to tour the world, and, given a plane ticket and a course of...

Pub Date
01 Mar 2018

Ethan is a liar. He can't help it, he doesn't even realize he's doing it, but he lies to everyone he meets, and he doesn't know how to stop.

Cut off from those around him, Ethan finds himself at the door of Dr. Wright, agreeing to a radical treatment. Ethan will leave his home of Boston behind to tour the world, and, given a plane ticket and a course of...

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The Mammoth Murders

Minokee Mysteries, Book Two

by Iris Chacon

Pub Date
01 Nov 2019

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A blind deejay (Shepard Krausse) and an invisible librarian (Miranda Ogilvy) from a tiny, rural Florida town try to solve a double disappearance connected to a recent canoe trip. It ain't exactly "Deliverance," but there's a heap of trouble brewing fer these folks -- some of it human, some of it animal, and all of it deadly. Shep and Miranda rely on their...

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The Mammoth Murders

Iris Chacon

The Mammoth Murders

Minokee Mysteries, Book Two

by Iris Chacon

Pub Date
01 Nov 2019

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A blind deejay (Shepard Krausse) and an invisible librarian (Miranda Ogilvy) from a tiny, rural Florida town try to solve a double disappearance connected to a recent canoe trip. It ain't exactly "Deliverance," but there's a heap of trouble brewing fer these folks -- some of it human, some of it animal, and all of it deadly. Shep and Miranda rely on their...

It seems like an ordinary Wednesday, until the phone rings. A mysterious caller with a chilling threat. Journalist Alice Henderson hangs up, ready to dismiss it as a hoax against the newspaper. But the next Wednesday, the stalker makes another move—and it becomes clear that this is all about Alice.

It seems like an ordinary Wednesday, until the phone rings. A mysterious caller with a chilling threat. Journalist Alice Henderson hangs up, ready to dismiss it as a hoax against the newspaper. But the next Wednesday, the stalker makes another move—and it becomes clear that this is all about Alice.

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The Better Liar

A Novel

by Tanen Jones

Pub Date
14 Jan 2020

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When a woman conceals her sister’s death to claim their joint inheritance, her deception exposes a web of dangerous secrets in this addictive new thriller for fans of Megan Abbott, Gillian Flynn, and Paula Hawkins.

“Like most of the dead, I want to be remembered.”

Robin Voigt is dead. If Leslie had arrived at her sister’s cramped Las Vegas apartment just...

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The Better Liar

Tanen Jones

The Better Liar

A Novel

by Tanen Jones

Pub Date
14 Jan 2020

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When a woman conceals her sister’s death to claim their joint inheritance, her deception exposes a web of dangerous secrets in this addictive new thriller for fans of Megan Abbott, Gillian Flynn, and Paula Hawkins.

“Like most of the dead, I want to be remembered.”

Robin Voigt is dead. If Leslie had arrived at her sister’s cramped Las Vegas apartment just...

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The Red Lotus

A Novel

by Chris Bohjalian

Pub Date
17 Mar 2020

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant comes a twisting story of love and deceit: an American man vanishes on a rural road in Vietnam, and his girlfriend, an emergency room doctor trained to ask questions, follows a path that leads her home to the very hospital where they met.

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The Red Lotus

Chris Bohjalian

The Red Lotus

A Novel

by Chris Bohjalian

Pub Date
17 Mar 2020

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant comes a twisting story of love and deceit: an American man vanishes on a rural road in Vietnam, and his girlfriend, an emergency room doctor trained to ask questions, follows a path that leads her home to the very hospital where they met.

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Criss Cross

(Alex Cross 27)

by James Patterson

Pub Date
14 Nov 2019

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'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it.' - Lee Child, international bestselling author of the Jack Reacher seriesFrom the author of Sunday Times no. 1 bestseller The President is Missing

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Criss Cross

James Patterson

Criss Cross

(Alex Cross 27)

by James Patterson

Pub Date
14 Nov 2019

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'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it.' - Lee Child, international bestselling author of the Jack Reacher seriesFrom the author of Sunday Times no. 1 bestseller The President is Missing

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The Shape of Night

A Novel

by Tess Gerritsen

Pub Date
01 Oct 2019

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A woman trying to outrun her past is drawn to a coastal village in Maine—and to a string of unsolved murders—in this novel of romance and psychological suspense from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen.

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The Shape of Night

Tess Gerritsen

The Shape of Night

A Novel

by Tess Gerritsen

Pub Date
01 Oct 2019

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A woman trying to outrun her past is drawn to a coastal village in Maine—and to a string of unsolved murders—in this novel of romance and psychological suspense from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen.

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Christmas Sweets

by Joanne Fluke, Laura Levine, Leslie Meier

Pub Date
29 Oct 2019

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Gathered in one volume for the very first time, here are three yuletide tales of mystery, murder, and romance, featuring your favorite sleuths . . .THE TWELVE DESSERTS OF CHRISTMAS by JOANNE FLUKE It’s the perfect mix of naughty and nice when two lovestruck boarding school teachers watch six kids over Christmas break. But when someone wants the cozy...

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Christmas Sweets

Joanne Fluke, Laura Levine, Leslie Meier

Christmas Sweets

by Joanne Fluke, Laura Levine, Leslie Meier

Pub Date
29 Oct 2019

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Gathered in one volume for the very first time, here are three yuletide tales of mystery, murder, and romance, featuring your favorite sleuths . . .THE TWELVE DESSERTS OF CHRISTMAS by JOANNE FLUKE It’s the perfect mix of naughty and nice when two lovestruck boarding school teachers watch six kids over Christmas break. But when someone wants the cozy...

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Take Me Apart

A Novel

by Sara Sligar

Pub Date
28 Apr 2020

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A young archivist’s obsession with her subject’s mysterious death threatens to destroy her fragile grasp on sanity, in a riveting debut novel of psychological suspenseWhen the famed photographer Miranda Brand died mysteriously at the height of her career, it sent shock waves through Callinas, California. Decades later, old wounds are reopened when her son...

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Take Me Apart

Sara Sligar

Take Me Apart

A Novel

by Sara Sligar

Pub Date
28 Apr 2020

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A young archivist’s obsession with her subject’s mysterious death threatens to destroy her fragile grasp on sanity, in a riveting debut novel of psychological suspenseWhen the famed photographer Miranda Brand died mysteriously at the height of her career, it sent shock waves through Callinas, California. Decades later, old wounds are reopened when her son...